The Sun. — London, England, 1838-04-24 00:00:00

ct as Deputy Treasurer to the Society, under the super intendence and control of the principal officer. XXI.—ACTUARY.—The Actuary shall annually report to the General Meeting in January, whether the sickness and mortality experienced by the Society during the by gone year, have been in accordance with the calculations of the Society, and at the same time exhibit a statement, showing the surplus or deficiency of funds, and the rate of assessment to be lesied, in terms of Article VIII. XXII.—COLLECTOR OR OFFICER.—The Collector or Officer shall, if required, give security fur his intromissions ; and, immediately after the election of Office-bearers in January, and the meeting of Directors in July, call on the Members for payment of their contributions, handing over the money to the Treasurer as soon as collected, or when required to do so, and exhibiting, when called for, the re ceipts remaining on hand. He Lhall also call all the meet ings of the Directors and of the Society, as the Secretary may direct, and do such similar business of the Society as may he requ:red. XXIII.—PROCEDURE WHERE MEMBERS DECLINE TO ACCEPT OFFICE, OR BECOME DISQUALIFIED TO HOLD IT. —ln :he event of any Member refusing to accept of an appointment, or becoming disqualified to hold office, the next highest nominee at the election shall be appointed in his stead ; in which case the Member so appointed shall vacate any other office to which he may have been elected, and the office so vacated shall be in like manner filled up ; declaring that Office-bearers appointed in this manner, absil only be bound to complete the term of those in whose place they come—such service being accounted to them as la full servitude ; and when so called to the general ma enement, their names shall be placed at the foot of the Roll o f Directors, and progress accordingly. Members who may have i„;: 1 .1 either the offices of President or Treasurer for three years, „,:‘/ decline again to accept of these offices without incurring- nenalty attached to refusal. XXI V.-EXPENCES OF THE SOCIETY-HOW DIS BUBSED.--The necessary expences of the Soj:.tv, including salaries, rents, and incidental charges, shall be d;s t ez.:r4ed out of the funds thereof, as the same may be allowed by the Directors ; the expense of their meetings being always ressrieted to a sum not exceeding One Shilling for each per-on present. XXV.—DISPUTES TO BF. SETTLED BY ARBITRATION. —All disputes which may arise between the Society or any person acting under them, and any individual Member thereof, or person claiming on account of any Member, shall be settled by arbitrators who shall be appointed as fol lows :—At the first general meeting of the Society after the Enrolment of their Rules, fire Arbitra tors, residing within the Parliamentary bounds of the City or Glasgow, shall be named and elected by the Members, none of said Arbitrators being directly or indi rectly beneficially interested in the funds of the Society ; and, in such case of dispute, the names of the Arbitrators shall be written on separate and similarly folded pieces of paper, and placed in a box or glass, and the three whose names are first drawn out by the complaining party, or by one appointed by him, shall be the Arbitrators to de cide the matters in difference. The Arbiters in the dis charge of their duty, shall adhere to the forms prescribed, and make use of the powers conferred on them by the Act, and their decision awarded in the form subjoined to these Rules, shall be final and binding on both parties. Should, in any ease, the three who have been drawn hold three se veral opinions, a fourth shall be ballotted for, in manner herein mentioned, whose opinion shall determine the mat ter in dispute. In the event of the death, the refusal to act, or the anywise becoming disqualified of any of the Ar biters, the number five shall be again made up at the first meeting of the Directors. XXVI.—ARBITERS TO BE TRUSTEES FOR THE SO CIETY.—The persons chosen as Arbiters shall also act as Trustees, in certifying to the Bank of England, that the deposits which may be made, are truly the funds of a regu larly and lawfully constituted Society ; and all Government or Bank of England securities shall be taken in the name of said Trustees. XX VII.—PENALTIES EXIGIBLE ON REFUSAL OF OF.. FicE.---For the purpose of enforcing the Rules of the So ciety, the following penalties are declared to be exigible, viz. A Member refusing the Presidentship, to pay..... 205. Refusing to be Treasurer,.. 4os. Refnsing to act as a Director, 10s. Which several penalties shall be exacted, and go into the funds of the Society, the payment of the same being accounted service. The President refusing or neglecting to call a Meeting of Directors, when duly requested to do so, shall pay 10s. An Office-bearer absent from any meeting of the Society, or of the Directors, shall pay 2s. An Ordi nary Director absent, Is. ; or neglecting to perform the duties of any Sub-committee to which he may be appointed, or to visit the sick at the request of the President, ss. ; but these penalties may lie mitigated or remitted by the Directors, as circumstances may require. XXVIII P ROVISION FOR CASES NOT EMBRACED BY THE RULES.—Should any case occur in the Society con cerning which the Rules are silent, the Acts of Parliament relative to Friendly Societies shall be held as regulating the same ; and for this purpose, the Secretary shall at all times be provided with copies of these Acts, 10 Geo. I V., cap. 56, and 4 and 5 Will. I V., cap. 40 ; and in the event of any disagreement or misunderstanding in regard to the Rules of the Society, or interpretation of anything herein contained, the Board of Directors shall decide the same, and record their decision in the Minute-book, as a prece dent in like cases. XXIX.—ALTERATIONS OR AMENDMENTS OF RULES, HOW TO BE MADE.—AII alterations or amendments of the foregoing Regulations must be made in terms of the before mentioued Acts of Parliament, and agreed to by, at least, three•fourtbs of any meeting held for the purpose of decid ing thereon ; but before any alteration can take place, a e pisition by not less than a fifth of the whole Members, stating the proposed alterations or additions, must be lodged with the Secretary, prior to the ordinary meeting of Directors in November, or two months before any gene ralmceting to be specially called to consider the same ; and the notice of such meeting shall contain intimation the purpose thereof. XXX.—SOCIETY HOW TO BE SUED AND DISSOLVED.- The Society may sue, and be sued, in name of their Treat. surer for the time hein ,, ; and it shall only be dissolvable in terms of the Act of Parliament, made in the 10th year of, the reign of George the Fourth, for consolidating and amending the laws of Friendly Societies, special regard being had to the 26th section, which narrates the manner of dissolution. At a General Meeting of COMMERCIAL. TRA VELLERA, held within the Argyll Hotel, Glasgow, upon the 10th day of January, 1838, WILLIAM Git.mouß, Esq., Chairman, The Society was declared to be formed ; the preceding Rules were unanimously adopted as the Constitution thereof; and the following Office-bearers elected for 1838, viz. Mr. Gilmour, President. • Mr. J Imes Gourlay, Vice. President. DIRECTORS. Mews. John Knox William Christie Malcolm Kerr Alexander Aitken Robert Robertson James Bland Messrs. William Crichton Alex. NP K inlay John Smith Patrick Scotland Geo. Mathieson Alex. Rankin. L. B. Thomson, Treasurer. Alexander Borland, Actuary. Juhn Hey Robertson, M. D., Surgeon. Edward Railton, Secretary. James Reid, Collector. On Sunday week, the neighbourhood of Mountness ing, Essex, was visited by a tremendous hail-storm, accompa nied by snow. The wind from the North-west was blowing a perfect hurricane at the time, and the clouds of snow and hail as they were whirled along presented a dense and singular ap pearance. Several of the haiktones were of the size of small pistol-bullets, and such as in their descent came in contact with the more forward fruit trees, tore away the blossom, and, in many instances, completely severed the stalk to which it was attached. Considerable damage was done to various greenhouses in the neighbourhood. The snow, in the short space of ten minutes, was upwards of an inch thick, and the fields presented the garb and aspect of winter, instead of the usual attributesof spring. The Constitutionnel says—" The choice of Marshal Souit, as represent ;tive of France at the coronation of the Queen of England, may perhaps surprise, when taken in connexion with the souvenirs of Portugal and Toulouse. It is owing to a circumstance much talked of in the Chambers. A French Admiral, during his late stay in London, was in terrogated as to who was to be the representative of France at the coronation ; and, as he found a difficulty in replying otherwise than by conjectures, many eminent persons, and particularly the Duke of Wellington, hinted a wish that this mission should be intrusted to Marshal Soult. The Queen also, it is said, expressed the same desire. This being known at the Tuileries, seems to have determined the choice of Ole Duke of Dalmatia. "—[The allusion to Toulouse will not escape our readers : the name of that city will be found in acribed on the Arc de l'Etoile among the list of victories. A rogintent of English Guards bears the same name on its co lours for the same affair; and this concluding action o" the Peninsular war has always been reckoned by the English army as one of the most brilliant, though sanguinary, vic tories of the Duko of Wellington.]—Note by the Editor of Galignani's Messenger. A lamentable instance of superstition has lately oc curred in the Hautes Pyrenees. A young girl of the commune of Azereix, near Tarbes, who had been deserted by her lover, resolved to try every means to rekindle in his bosom the love which was extinguished. Assisted by her mother and a noted Circe, she composed a drink, whieb was to have the desired kffect, and administered it to the )oung man, who swallowed it without suspicion. To compose this philtre, the body of an in fant was exhumed, cut to pieces. and exposed to the action of a string fire, and the liquid coming from it served to the young man. A sister of the girl, actuated by jealousy, informed she young man of the whole affair, and he has, in conse uence,l been seized with a d angerous delirious (e'er.— French Paper. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Mr. Wordsworth, we observe, has addressed a letter to Mr. Sergeant Talfourd on the subject of his Copyright Bill, in which he expresses a reluctance to petition Parlia ment, " because be would not ask as an individual suppli ant, what be conceives to he the right of a class." He thinks that those who have now cried out against the ex tension of the term as is now proposed are bound to show caute why the original right of authors in perpetuity should not be restored. On a future day it is our intention to enter at more length on the examination of this Bill, which has caused great alarm to printers and publishers through out the country. With all deference to the great Poet of the Lakes, his doctrine of an author's right in perpetuity to the productions of his brain is, like many other doc trines, deserving of very little attention. The great thing to be considered is, in what way will the public he most be nefited ? It is at best idle to talk of a right by common law, which it is clear cannot be exercised. The question then comes to be, what protection ought the Legislature to give to authors ; for the public interest, as well as their own, demands that some protection ought to be given. Were an author or his bookseller to be refused protection against pirates for a certain period, it is sufficiently clear that the motive for literary exertion would be greatly weakened, if not destroyed. In fixing the period, however, the Legislature ought not to be influenced by fanciful con siderations. Before a work can become profitable to an author, the aid of a number of others is necessary. The capitalist is as necessary to the author as he is to the capi talist. Supposing a book then transiferred to the capitalist, the protection, as far as the latter is concerned, ought not to extend beyond the term which be considers of impor tance in fixing the price to be given for the copyright. If a bookseller did not in reality give more for twenty eight years titan for fourteen, that affords a presumption, at all events, that the value of a right for a longer period is to him nothing. Should the author's right extend beyond this period ? It seems to be admitted that an extension beyond the definite period enjoyed by the bookseller would be of no avail to the author. At the end of the twenty eight years the work would either be in demand or it would not. If not in demand the author could not of course sell the right. If the book should continue popular, the bookseller could so overstock the market and fill his own warehouses by editions printed prior to the expiration of his term as to render the author's right illusory. But is the advantage of the community to go for nothing in the consideration of this question ? The author has been protected for twenty-eight years—the Legislature has enabled him to derive a profit from the production of his brain which without its protection he could not have derived. He might, indeed, have de rived money by communicating his thoughts in the shape of oral lectures ; cv he might have recited his poems, like Homer ; or sung them, if possessed of a melodious voice, end levied a tax on his audience. But without the Legislature ho could have derived no profit from his compositions through the press, It seems but just, then, that when a sufficient ground for affording encourage ment to literary productions has been afforded, that. then the public ought in turn to be protected against a mono-. poly price. A book may have ceased to be in demand at the high price demanded for it by the original publisher, and yet a great portion of the public may wish to have it in a cheap form. We remember the time when many of the most attractive works were sold by Chapman, printed on the coarsest paper, at i very low price, within the reach of the means of persons in humble life. The prices which publishers must demand to remunerate them for copyright money, advertising, &c., would have effectually pre vented the sale in such quarters. But why should a cheap publisher, desirous of placing it work within the reach of the humblest classes, be pvohibited by a copyright, useless to the author and original publisher, but which, nevertheless, might involve him in a ruin ous law-suit if he embarked in the undertaking without their consent? Mr. Wordsworth makes rather too light of the apprehensions of publishers and printers. These are a numerous body, and they consider Mr. Sergeant Tal fourd's Bill fraught with the most ruinous consequences to them. They look more particularly to the retrospective clauses with alarm. Mauy publishers would, by such a re trospective effect, be altogether at the mercy of tile descendants of authors. Let us take the case of the works of a popular writer, of one small portion of wide the copyright may expire in a year or two, while th greater portion would belong to the bookseller for a nu ' ber of years. Mr, Sergeant Talfourd'a Bill would enabi the descendant of the author to come forward and say t' the bookseller—you shall not publish this portion in th works without paying me such and eueli a sum (an exor bitant demand), end ha must either comply, or, if h have not in anticipation printed off a sufficient shoo before the expiration of the copyright, abandon idea of continuing to sell the whole -works. Ca least of this kind would be of frequent occurrence, so think booksellers and printers. The author who wou not be encouraged to publish by a monopoly of twenty-eig years would not be encouraged one whit the more by monopoly of five hundred years. Where are we to stop if we wirer ourselves to leave out of sight all practical consi derations, and legislate for some fanciful encouragement which is to operate on living authors by acting on their hopes of reward at the distance of say half a century ? However, if we must attend to such considerations, ;t would be better for the state to bestow rewards on the de scendants of popular authors in all times coming equivalent to the profit made by publishing their works. After the lapse of a hundred years what would theehurclen on the public amount to ? A good stall in Durham would pay all the pensions eqdivalent to the profits by publishing books of more than fifty years standing. On a future day we will examine Mr. Sergeant Talfourd's Bill in detail. We have no wish to deny to literature the most ample encourage ment ; we only wish to guard against making a fanciful on. couragement to clash with the interests of numerous bodies of men to whose welfare the Legislature is bound to attend, as well as to the welfare of authors.—Morning Chronicle. We take advantage of the pamphlet sent to us, entitled " A Letter on Copyright, addressed to Authors, by a Friend of Authors," to add a few more words on an important sub ject, which has now—portly through our ministration— caused considerable excitement, and suggested a public meeting in Lambeth, which is forthwith to be held. We do so, wishing in common parlance to "say out our say;" or, in other words, to complete the circle of our argument, The view which we have taken may be new; but a new era has dawned—we will nut say on the British republic of letters, but on the general empire of mind. The time is now fully come when the intellectual class—consisting of their severel departments, literary, scientific, and artistical —should come forward to assert and re-claim those rights of which they have hitherto been despoiled. It is time for the intellectual helots to break their chains. It is time for the " hewers of wood and drawers of water"—th e brick makers of Pharaoh, without straw to work with, and without pay for their labour—to throw aside their slavish implements—to go forth from the presence of their masters—to exhibit their real strength—and to take up an independent position by their side, What would the mercantile and trading classes be without them ? Yet how small a share of the large profits and accumulated capital which they create, do the literary co-operatives obtain for their labour a It is in vain, by throwing contempt on the poverty of the literati, to impart an invidious character to the nature of their labour. This will not do any longer. We have shewn that immense capital, both in individual and in general instances, is realized by literary and sci entific exertion. We do not hesitate to say that as much substantial profit and capital are raised by it as in any mercantile or in any trading avocation what •ever. If the class who create this capital be generally oor, it is because they have been robbed. That is the cry grievance to be now redressed. They have been lundered systematically by those who have raised for tunes by their works, and systematically by the fo 'reign reading public, who have everywhere raised them : andis n e s l v t a e n s s ce in ei es n bt t i l e : f e co r e s o coi exertions.afl t scale he l a Tr b ga y ek e t c l t t a e h p i e r i t la d sl i o f f raised.,uosoio. created by a literary We t e gav e d by Sir W. Scott's single pen—take the capital raised by the scientific inventors of gas, of steam, and of every spe cies of machinery for accelerating the operations and in creasing the profits of commerce. We have an instance even in yesterday's parer of the large profits which literary labour is capable, single-handed, of reaping. M. Thiers, for writing a leading article of the Constitutionnel, a daily paper, receives 2,0001. a year ; viz., one-third more than he got for his salary when a French Minister, and only one-third less than the average pay of British Ministers, profusely as they are paid. We have said enough to prove the large profits realised by the intellectual class, without the aid of the usual outlay of capital, and therefore with less real need of assistance from the monied class. The profit and the comparative independence indicate the true position in society wl.ich they cught to enjoy. Take again the instance of the education of the artizan, which the intellectual classes have sugg,eqted, urged, and are now promotin g . It that a small benefit to the commercial class? W e assert that the general commerce of the country depends upon their exertions in educating th e artisan. The inferiority of his present education compared with that of the foreign artisan beats us out of this foreign market, and practieally taxes the pockets, the tills, the coffers of the mercantile class. The si;p t eriority of a single design incikes or 4,-cab the first mercantile houses, and starve; or feeds the myriad-headed vnulation of Spi talfields or Manchester. Where is the remuneration:,; the intellectual class ? where the profits which they derive from Alj their inesti ma bl e serv i ces to t h e money-geithig classes ? They poiitiyely get nothing, though their labours are equal to a parfisership service. But let us come nearer home—to the literary class only. The amount of remu- Aeratipn which this class have obtained, aggregately, from the publishing and bookselling tradesmen, who deal in their works, is contemptibly small in comparison with the for tunes which the booksellers have made by their exertions. Milton's 51. and Tonson's 30,000/. constitute only a single instance of the relative share of tic profit which is awarded to the real labourers. The crumbs have been thrown to them from the rich man's table, for which they have provided the dishes. It has been their own fault that they have humiliated themselves to pick up the crumbs. We tell them plainly the bitter but wholesome truth, that their position is their own fault. " Keep your poet poor," was sneeringly said by the lordly patron of the great Dryden. The axiom has been acted upon by the pre tended patrons of intellect up to the present time. A charitable pity is affected for its avocations, and literatur e is insidiously taught, not to rely upon the combined energy of its members, but to look to the ultimate workhouse of mendicating societies and literary funds. The literati should have disdained these things. When any depart ment of the literary field failed, they should have gone into some other avocation or profession. Surely talent will everywhere and in every sphere make its way. It is not es sential either fur themselves or society that they should be for ever writing, or living for ever in fire like salamanders. They should have lived upon half a loaf rather than have de meaned themselves, and pleased their enemies bypicking up the leavings from their own table. Of course, eleemosynary institutions for decayed authors are patronized by those who monopolize almost the entire profit of literary labour. Of course, the patron (like Tonson) who gets 30,000/., where the patronized (like Milton) gets Si., will give 10/. to a literary workhouse fur the substitute. It looks like charity to the drudge, and it keeps him a degraded self, firmed for further profitable and unremunerated labour. The truth cannot and ought not to be disguised. Intel lectual labour is envied on account of its presumed supe riority, while its powers are valued and its profits are coolly pocketed. The animal and mechanical labour of most trades is not only inferior in character, but in ferior in the amount of real profit which it produces. But the profit is unfairly distributed. The maker of wealth is poor. It is time that this great grievance, which we have thus briefly analyzed, should be re medied. The period is fully come when the literary and scientific classes are bound to assert their rights. The agitation and excitement caused by the question of copy right now now puts the means in their power. If they neglect the opportunity now, a long time may elapse before it recurs. Of this we have no doubt—that ultimately the intellectual class will be placed at the head of society. It will be its administrative head. Nature intended this su premacy for the body politic-=just as she intended, and causes the functions of the head to rule over the body natural. Even at the present time, by means of the press (however they may be humiliated by envy—deteroriated in their means by extortion—or degraded by their own su pine and slavish submission to social wrong)—they possess, in their combined character, a real sceptre—as real as ever was wielded by hand. They wield the sovereignty of public opinion ; as practical and substantial in the blows which it strikes at t 3 rants andbad Ministers as the profits of incomeand capital which it creates are practical and substantial. Its thunderstroke traverses all space, and consecrate s or oblite rates where it falls. It is natural that the real sovereignty should be united with the ostensible. That it will be so some day we do not doubt. It is delayed for the present only by the mouldering barrier of patrician self-arrogation and feudal distinction. It is for the intellectual co-opera tives of all classes to hasten or retard the advent of the in tellectual millenium which shall remunerate them ade quately for their vast services to society, and place them in the social position for which they were destined. The lite rary co-operatives must combine like the co-operatives of all other trades, The reins are now in their own hands. To turn to the right or left, or to retrogade will be fatal. Wa give them the advice of the Naiad .to Ulysses, Look not back; in conjunction with the advice of Apollo to Phaeton, In medic tutissime ibis.—Morning Advertiser. The Sun adverts, last night, to our statement, that, in consequence of the anticipated success of Colonel Scale's Bill, English speculators had bought foreign grain in such quantities, as to raise its price in the chief continental depots for corn. Our contemporary observes : 1 " The fact of the rise of pric es abroad is, we b e li eve , cos rect; and though the purchases of our mer c ha n t s ma y has cauaed that rise; we are induced to attribute them, in part, a least, to a more provident foresight than the expectation tha Colonel Seale's Bill would become law. Our merchants kno the influence of the landlords in the House of Peers too wet to speculate on the chance of their passing that measure 'Their purchases are made in relation, we believe, to a muc more inteseiging, and, for the half-starved people of England a fearful anticipation. The store of corn on the Continent i' by no means large. An absolute d.larth is already said to bar made Itself felt in Sweden, Denmark, and No rw ay, Tile se a : son has commenced here roost inauspiciously. All the pr o ' vincial newspapers received in town within the last few days speak ;o, the most gloomy terms of the cold and wet weather. It has long ago been observed that a cold, wet spring, is, in England, the sure fo,er,anner of a greatly deficient harvest. To a knowledge of all these cireametemmees we attribute the reported purchases of our merchants." The Sun is in error as to the cause of the rise in price of continental wheat. The purchases, to which we adverted, were made several weeks ago—and were made, expressly in time belief that Colonel , Seale's Bill would be carried , and, when carried, would open up almost unlimited facilities fo the introduction of foreign grain into England. At iii period to which we advert, the character of the season wa , not decided ; nor yet, chilly and ungonial as our spring h . been, is it, in any degree, more chilly and ungenia_, tha a was the spring of' 1837. Last year, however—although li the risk of scanty crops was, at least, as imminent as it is att present, there was no corresponding speculation in f o!•eigni lure. As to the . grain —and, by consequence, no correspondinsgnormsßeilii, in its t nr. the r e. price. The reason is obvious, There wa ret)i Colonel alleged S d e e a a l r e t ' Scale's, inthe Sweden,, i,bef: o rDe Denmark, a r l e k g: a s I li a d . u, Norway,--it may be sufficient to observe, tha t if t he, rise of price in continental corn wero connected with the condition of the northern markets, that rise would have made itself felt, independently altogether of the move ments of English speculators. Such, however, has not been the ease, The rise has followed the pureheees for the English market, as closely as an effect can follow its . cause. We have stated that Colonel Seale's Bill, if per- . mitted to pass, will be found but a prelude to the repeal of the corn laws, The tone of the advocates of the measure now before Parliament justifies the s upposition. The Evening Contemporary, for instance, from whom we have already quoted, treats of the corn laws in the following strain : " So determined are the unblushing advocates of that sin. righteous scheme, to enrich the landlords, by stinting the people of food, to uphold it, that they object to Colonel Seale's Bill, that it may enable our ship-owners to victual their vessels at a cheaper rate, and so compete with the ship, ping of other nations. The selfish landlords would, in fact, strike down Great Britain's commercial marine, and her uteri time greatness, rather than allow our seamen to eat biscuit and beef which has paid no rent to them. The present aspect of the seasons, howev e r, make us look forward with hope for the speedy termination of the starvation law. 1/i. therto it h as b een preserved by being only imperceptib l y ape. rative." This tirade against the Corn laws, is very similar in character to these which, from time to time, meet our eyes in the columns of the free-trade journals. It is no less wild, and self-contradictory, than such cheap declamations usually are. In the passage just quoted, the Corn-laws are denounced as an " unrighteous scheme," the advocates of which must be incapable of blushing—a " scheme," which " enriches the landlords," and " stints the people of food"—a " scheme" which prevents our ship-owners from " competing with the shipping of other nations"— a " scheme" to " strike down Great Britain's maritime greatness," for the gratification of " the selfish land lords ;" a larger or more mischievous progeny, in short, few legislative measures (if The Sun speaks truly) may claim ; yet this ° scheme," so fearful in its character and tendencies, has been, sill the while (by the confes sion of the writer, whose words we have quoted), inope rative, or " only imperceptibly operative !" If time defen ders of the Corn Laws —if the defenders, in other words, of the system which seeks to secure the home market to t h e English growers of food—should deem it fitting, to re iply to any portion of the rambling inculpation of the l e ,i, t i ng l a w, which we have quoted from The Sun, they [ni g ht urge, perhaps , that there can b e no grosser perver sion of the truth , than the ass er ti on t h at the principle in -Ivolved in the Corn Laws is a principle which t e nds to stint the people of food , " or to " strike down G rea t I3ri ain's commercial mar i ne." The principle, which w ould ecure home markets to home producers, is a principle 'hie!), if fairly" carried ou t, " would secure ample and pros tabl e e mployment to the humblest labour er , an d—by ecessary consequence—invest him w i t h the power f , es ome f, commanding, ,ol ; at a n d all in s taimefsd'ir a mea s s u u ffi re cien t ep lr th o e f h 0 i principle, nu ' r f s h h a i t p-oliners, of moreover, so far. the power to . fm O r t o he r t er,ding necessaries tn deprive . " compete with the shipping of other nations," would, by secortng to British ship-owners, the whole of our coasting, and colonial sin t e t iog trade, together with a monopoly of the carriage of our foreign experte ansl impprts, A destroy altogether altogether that unfair competition on the part of time shit* owners of foreign countriee, which has already wrought; such fearful havoc upon British marine intepesL4: The policy which woolwouldleeve native industry without prot ec tion has already succeeded to a fearful extent, a, the mi-i gory of half a million of starving hand-loom weavers testis; oely ca use , w hy. flee. The parital j 7rv!etion of n a ti ve i n d ustry, secured b :fi y e igttlel,olpe g e ts of operation t t h h e e I p az r u n rin a ; ,?ii populationthe in o;glaild , pot reduced to the Ipy& of t h e . hand-l oom Weavers! i. — Mo s esing Iferuld; A sudden gloom has come over the bright Ministerial vision of the Queen's visit to Ireland. The Morning C,t'orficlF of yesterday brings up the rear of a long succes- THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 1838. son of leading articles with a very laconic leader upon this subject, which, considering that it conveys an official and authorised communication to the public upon a subject of considerable interest, might fairly enough have claimed a more conspicuous position in the columns of our Ministe rial Contemporary. "There is no authority for the ru mour of her Majesty's visit to Ireland this year." We have now quoted the whole information, as it appears in rather a dark corner of the Chronicle. We cannot help thinking that our judicious Contemporary, after the boasted exultation which the Ministerial party, both in Ireland and Great Britain, have expressed on the determination of the Queen to visit Ireland this year, felt a little ashamed and re luctant to proclaim the absence of any other foundation for this exultation than mere unauthorised rumour. " There is no authority for the rumour," are words of equivocal import. Does the Chronicle mean that there never was any authority for the rumour ? Or does it only mean that the authority upon which the rumour originally rested is now withdrawn ? Upon the latter supposition the Chronicle may be right ; on the former it would be rather difficult, as it seems to us, to reconcile the assertion of our Contem porary with some very notorious facts. It is scarcely to be imagined, for instance, that Mr. O'Connell left London for the Easter recess without making some inquiry as to the probability of the Queen's visit, if it were only for the purpose of enabling himself to appease the anxiety and gratify the curiosity of the friends whom he was about to rejoin in Ireland. Nor can it be doubted that Mr. O'Connell, in case he thought it worth his while to inquire, had as good a chance as most persons to discover how the matter really stood. But we find Mr. O'Connell proclaiming in Dublin, no longer ago than Thursday last, his confident expectation of the Royal visit, and turning to the use which might have been expected the apprehen sions which some very silly people, both in Ireland and in this country have expressed, of injury to the cause of the Protestant Church and Constitution from that event. There is evidently a change, a very recent and a very decided change, in the intentions of the Court, as to the Irish visit. To account for this is not within our province, but we may venture, nevertheless, to hazard a conjecture with respect to it. Whether that conjecture shall turn out to be correct or erroneous it is certain that the coin cidence upon which it is founded is a very remarkable one. On Saturday the intelligence reached London that Mr. O'Connell had recalled into active exist ence the rebel Parliament of Ireland, which some time ago he pretended to have dissolved, and which, since that period, if not actually defunct, has at least been altogether dormant. On Monday the organ of the Go vernment hastens to correct the misunderstanding in which the public, both of Great Britain and of Ireland, had bee; left undisturbed for several weeks, and to intimate that no such thing as a visit of her Majesty to Ireland either is or has been intended. It is not very easy to believe that these two occurrences—one of which follows the other so closely as almost to seem part of it—are entirely uncon nected. W e think the circumstances fully warrant our surmise that the renewal of the O'Connell agitation in Ire land, however agreeable it may be to her Majesty's Minis ters, is not regarded by her Majesty as the most suitable or the most loyal preparation for her reception. To repel the Queen of England from the Irish shore by a well-con certed and infallible contrivance for inflaming political and religious animosities, so that they should not fail to explode in her presence, is, if our conjecture be in any degree cor rect, the last of the eminent services which Mr. O'Connel has conferred upon his country.—Morning Post. lAie regret to state that the health of Mr. Ralpi Lambton continues to be a source of great uneasiness and anxiety to his friends and relations.—Sunderland Herald. SINGULAR OCCURRENCE.—The child of a re spectable tradesman of Perth, about two-and-a-half years old, swallowed, about nine months ago, a needle, and, as a natural consequence, the parents were alarmed lest something serious might ensue. Under this feeling, physicians were called, who applied respectively emetics and purgatives, in vain, to re produce the swallowed needle ; but on the child for a number of days making no complaint, they (the parents) did not judge it necessary to persevere longer in a course of medicine. Light months passed over, when the circumstance was entirely forgotten. The other day, however, the forgotten terror of the needle was again revived, by the agonising cries of the child. The father, who was at the time at work, was sent for, 'and on examining the child, discovered and extracted the needle. Digestion had the effect of reducing it about a fifth part, the eye being entirely eaten away, but the point remaining as sharp as ever.—Scotsman. On Friday afternoon Captain Bastard of the Royal .Horie-guards Blue, alighted from his cabriolet at the house of oa nobleman hs Stratford-place, and gave directions to his kroom, who was with him, to adjust a portion of the harness. Nine was in the act of doing so, when the horse, which was a i ft) spirited the ou su rs d e de o l f q ttt st started r off u lt ay vehicle was tremendous neary a shed against one or two omuibusses which were passing long. The alarm excited was intense, as several women and children narrowly escaped being run over ; on arriving at the end of South Moulton -street, the animal ran against and knocked down a fine youth, named May, who was crossing the road. Police-constable Hawker, 106 D, hastened to the spot and found the gig of Captain Bastard on its side, and the horse lying on the ground. He lifted up the unfortunate youth, who was in a state of insensibility, and bleeding pro fusely from several wounds in the head, and having first taken him to the house of Mr. Ash, Lower Brook -street, conveyed him in a coach to the Middlesex Hospital, where he lies with -but very little hopes of recovery. A young man, named Baptiste Guyon, was brought the Prefecture of Police, accused of the murder of his aunt. uyon, who is twenty-one years of age, was an apprentice to butcher at Boulogne. On Thursday last, he asked permis-: on of his master to absent himself the next day, but was re..l used. lie, however, contrived to obtain a key from a tenant• the house, by means of which he could go out and return' ithout his absence being noticed, and he left the house on riday night. At Cormeil, Seine-et-Oise, Guyon had an unt, seventy-one years old, who was known to be posseaset! considerable property, and on Good Friday evening this 'oman was barbarously murdered. Two wounds were dis covered on her body, one of which had cut through the jugular vein, and the other was in the stomach. A sum of three thousand francs had also disappeared from an old cabinet in the house. On Saturday morning Guyon went about his usual occupations, apparently in much better humour than usual ; but being suspected of the murder, a search was made in his room, and after much trouble a blouse, which he usually wore, was found, stained with blood. He could give no satisfactory account of this, nor of where he was on Friday right. This circumstance, and a suspicious cut on his right ha:,d, led the authorities to order his apprehension. Galignani. ALE ADULTERATORS--Mr. Finch, in his lec ture, made it out the other night as clear as possible, that hardly fourpenny worth of malt was put in a gallon of ale : for this wash some in the trade charge as much as tenpence per quart ; in consequence of these causes, my trade, as well as that of many others, has sunk one-third, and, unless the alehouse keeper has something better to sell their customers, the trade in general, as well as the health of the inhabitants, must suffer who drink the beverage at present sold. The brewers are getting as bad they were some twenty years back in London, when a list of articles put into porter was pub lished in the papers of that day. Actions were threatened against the editors, but not one took place ; they were defied. Windsor ale was much drunk in London at one time of day, hut, whether out of policy or kindness towards the brute crea tion, the grains were destroyed ; this got wind, and the brewery soon after gave up business. It is to be hoped the trade will return to malt and hops alone.—Correspondent of the Liver pool Albion. ROBBERY OF SIGNOR EMILIANI, BY ITALIAN BANDI rrx.—We are truly concerned to hear that Signor Emi liani, the celebrated professor of the violin, had in the course of last month made a very narrow escape with his life, having been plundered and maltreated by banditti, on his way from Rome to Naples. The party attacked consisted of Emiliani, Mr. G. Lee, an English gentleman, in whose carriage the former had accepted of a seat, and Mr. Lee's servant; and the spot where the affair took place, was a little beyond Vel letri, at the entrance to the Pontine Marshes. Here they were surprised by four brigands in masks, armed with cutlasses and fusees, who stopped the vehicle, and stabbed the vettarino in the breast, though not mortally. They then dragged Emiliani out of the carriage, threw him down, rifled his pockets of their contents, includin g a gold w a t c h, an d see i ng that he was reluctant t o g i ve up th key of his portmanteau, they dealt him several heavy blows with a fusee, from tho effects of which he has suffered severely. Mr. Lee and his servant were also robbed (including the loss sustained by Signor Emiliani) to the amount of 1501. sterling. Strangely enough, however, the only persons upon whom the assassins ventured to lay violent hands were their own countrymen, Emiliani and the postilion. Front certain circumstances con nected with the robbery, there is every reason to believe that these masked ruffians were no other than the Pope's soldiers, The, bandits of the Abruzzi are a set of " gay bold faced villains," who seldom, if ever, adopt the precaution of a mask, It appears, also, that the affair took place in open day, at ten o'clock In the morning, and within a very short dis,ance from a station where there ought to have been five soldiers, but, at the time our travellers reached It, after the robbery, four of these had disappeared. We trust that the Roma.] authorities made thom account for their absence.— Caledonian Mercury, SHIP DESTROYED BY FIRE.—DEAL, APRIL is.—The brig Charles, Hutchings master, from London to Newfoundland, reached the Downs yesterday, mid anchored about three p.m., all well. In the course of the evening she was discovered to be on fire in the hold. The smoke v.,as 45' 4 l'es;l ridi n o near !l ( 1 . ; the mi!Gtpr Witioh immediately lowered his heat" and sent all the hands he coi l ( 1 spare to her assistance, when evtry means were 1 . 5 6,1 to Subdue the fl ames. A ll their efforts, however, proved unavailing. About ten p.m. the flames burst from the hold with incre4seci violence, Thu crow and pasongers were rescued from their dangerous situation by the intrepid Deal boatmen, and were put on board another vessel. She con tipUp4 Pvping t i en a.m. this morning, when she 2uol; and totally disappeareril At Harwell, near flinckley, a poor woman named flinits ha? her body completely covered with white scales as large as a half-crown, upward's of a lint measure of which come eff every morning : what makes this more afflicting is, that the poor sufferer is enceinte.—Derby Reporter. SPORTING INTLLLIGENCL TAT TER SAL S-YESTERDA P. TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES, P.P. (TUESDAY NEXT). Several bets were made about Bamboo and Grey Momus, sonic) at sto 2 agst each, and others at 9to 4. The last quotation was 2 to 1 agst Bamboo (taken in fifties, and 5 to 2 agst the Grey (taken), 3 to 1 offered agst Mr. Thornhill's Saintfoin, anti takers of 4 to 1. THE DERBY. A good many horses were backed, but it will be seen by the prices that the alterations were few and unimportant. Phoenix and Young Rowton stand precisely as they did on Friday at Newmarket, while Grey Momus, who has been progressing for the last four or five days, is drawing very closely on them. Bamboo and Nonplus are also at the last Newmarket odds ; the former in much, the other in moderate, request. lon, The Early Bird, Cobham, Bullion, and D'Egville, arc at the old prices. Conservator's party is as small and as sanguine as ever. 30 to 1 was taken in hundreds, and they would have gone on had the layers of the odds been willing. Closing prices :- 7 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Plicenix—take 15 to 2 8 to 1 agst Mr. Pavne's Young Rowton—taken and aft, offered 10 to 1 agst Lord G. Bentinck is Grey Momus—taken 11 to 1 agst Lord Suffield's Bamboo—taken, 12 to 1 agst Mr. Armitage's Nonplus colt--taken 15 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Alemdar—offered 16 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's lon—taken 17 to 1 agst Mr. E. Peel's The Early Bird—take 20 to 1 20 to 1 agst Mr. H. Coombes's Cobham—taken and aft. offered 20 to 1 agst Lord G. Bentinck's D'Egville—offered 22 to 1 agst Captain Berkeley's Bullion—taken 30 to 1 agst Mr. Forth's Conservator—taken 30 to 1 agst Mr. Worral's Dormouse—taken and aft. offered 35 to 1 agst Sir G. Heathcote's Amato—taken 40 to 1 agst Mr. Richardson's Monc Adam—taken 40 to 1 agst Sir J. 111ills's Volunteer—taken 1000 to 15 agst Mr. Tarleton's Blaise—taken 2000 to 20 agst Mr. J. Day's Brother to Aleppo—taken 300 to 200 on Cobham agst Conservator—taken 200 to 100 on Young Rowton agst Early Bird—taken sto 2on Bamboo agst Dasdalus—taken 300 to 100 on Bamboo agst Dormouse—taken THE OAKS. 7 to 1 agst Mr. Batson's Acacia filly—taken 10 to 1 aist Mr. E. Peel's Ninny—taken 11 to 1 agst Lord Suffield's Calliste—taken 13 to 1 agst Mr. Nlostyn's Brown Duchess—taken 2000 to 100 agst Mr. Forth's Soldier's Consort —taken Nothing said about the second favourite, Glenara. SWEEPSTAKES ON MONDAY NEXT. 6 to 4 agst Duke of Grafton's Chymist lie I T- YNEIVOUTH RACES, MONDAY avn TUESDA r. A Silver Cup, the gift of Sir C. E. Grey, M.P., was won by Mr. Rodham's b. h., beating four others. The Borough Plate, free for any horse. lleats. Mr. Clark's b. Manfred, by 3fuley, 3 yrs, ist Owner . 1 1 Mr. Bell's b. h. Swainby, by Waverley, 5 yrs, 9st. 21b...... 2 2 Mr. Lamb's b. m. Calista, by Velocipede, 6 yrs, 9st. 51b.., 3 dr Mr. Lister's b. m. Eliza, 95t... Won in a canter. !n ABERG ! AVENNY AND MONMOUTHSHIRE RACES, THURSDAY. The Ladies' Purse, a Free Handicap, with 20 sovs. added, for the beaten horses, was won in two heats by Mr. Tranter's Chol stroy, beating Mr. Phelps's Baronet, Mr. J. Lloyd's Celastrus, and three others. The Abergavenny Steeple Chase Stakes of 5 cove. each, with 25 added, for horses of all denominations, three miles across a country. 12st. each, Gentlemen riders, were won by Mr. Hick man's hailroad, beating Mr. Vevers's Charity, Mr. Smith's Lara, Mr. Harris's Chronometer, and Mr. E. Bradley's Rhagflaniad. The Monmouthshire Hunt Steeple Chase, for a cup, value 25 sovs., added to a Sweepstakes of 3 sovs. each, for horses regularly hunted during the season with the Monmouthshire hounds, &c., 12st. each, Gentlemen riders, was won by Mr. Laurence's Fugle man, beating Mr. Edwards's Harkaway, Mr. Stretton's Worcester, Mr. Williams's Tartar, and Mr. Jones's Frankfort. The Scurry Steeple Chase Stakes, with 10 cove. added, were won by Mr. Bellamy's Ludford, beating Mr. Phelps's Tom Thum and five others. moved by a ne r s on o f hi g h pro f ess i ona l skin, and that it hid, beyond all do u b t , b een b o il e d . Th e surgeon w ho examired is had st ited that in two or three days he could give a mo re decided opinion. It was no doubt the hand of a man who worked hard. The LORD MAYOR directed the ward beadle to take the hand to St. Thomas's Hospital, in order that the professional authorities there might examine it, and report on the matter: The ward beadle and officer immediately repaired to the Hospital, leaving behind them in the Justice. room several per' sons who felt considerable anxiety about the result. Is about half an hour !he messengers returned, and The LORD MAYOR asked what th e surgeons at the llosP"‘ said? Tile ward beadle replied that Dr. Baker and Surgeo n Jay said that th ere was a mistake about the hand, as it did not belong to a man but a bear.—(Great laughter.) The gentlemen to o k hi m i nto t h e M useum, and showe d him the difference between a bear's fist and a human being's, and the former was a great deal fatter—besides the nails turned io , and the wrist was qu i te anot h er sort o f article. T hey were of opinion too, when asked, whether the person was al:C! dead t, hen the hand was cu t off, that if he was alive he must very probably h ave roare d so loud as to show who an what he was.—( Great laughter.) the The LORD MAYOR, who joined in the laughter, so paw belonged to one of the bears whose fat supplied sn gentlemen with fine h ea d s o f h a i r. Mr. HOBLER suggested the propriety, as doctors sometime s differed, of leavi ng t h e paw, or hand, or whatever i t %vast di the hospital, in order that it might undergo a thorough ex' amination.—(Laughter.) There was no doubt, as h a d bog remarked, that the po o r f e ll ow w h o had lost it had worked hard for his bread. This suggestion was, we were given to understand, adoptt and " the articl e " was or d ere d to be put in spirits forthvrit • at the request of th e me di ca l authority, in whose opinion it a hand and not a paw. GUILDIIALL. Yesterday the Hon. Algernon Curzon. "son of Lord Ter i d : ham, was brought before Mrr Alder;-„ait MJ,GNAV, cbarg, e ,d upon his own confession, with 3- „i ng Regiment, which he had uttered as a private few el" ag° oi a we n ature - Inspector Tur' of the City police, explained the , the case. The prisoner came to him in Alders ate-street a deserter from the vu Sunday afternoon, and stated that he wished to surrender him self as a deserter. He stated that upon the marriage of hi° brother, the Flom. Sydney Curzon, to a lady of large fortune:l he received a l etter from him, intimating that he disnar ci l . , him for ever. lie had be e n previously supported by an ". a lowance from his brother, and being compelled to al` ) , h starvation, to enter th e army , h e stayed about two mont h s vit! . . the regiment, an d t h en, b e i ng heartbroken at the situat i on which he found himself, he came to London, in the 11 °P'' c obtaining f rom some o f hi s opulent relatives the means to Pupr. chase his di sc h arge. F a ili ng in this resort, however, lic'ci 1„, obliged to surren d er hi mse l f. Inspector Turle advised Ink' to go to the Tower and surrender himself there, but he cat 4 ,,, he preferr e d b e i ng ta k en b efore a magistrate, that his relatl might see what a state h e was reduced to, and hoping tb to some friend or the public would subscribe to restore h im nt . his rank in soc i ety, or enable him to obtain emoloYme;nd Inspector T ur l e h av i ng referred to the Hue and Cry, " finding the priso ner was a d vert i sed as having deserte d fr t oro b , Chatham, with a memorandum that he had been in ke Spanish service, and was 24 years of age, agreed to to charge of hi m . bad 3, The prison er was a b out to enter into the treatment -c received from his relatives, but Mr. Alderm an M AGNAY said he had nothing to A with 11 the circumstan ces w hi ch i nduced him to enlist ; h e could % n o take notice of th e f act of the desertion. The Alderman t committed him t o t h e C ompter as a deserter, and se nt notification to the War-office that he was in custody. MA RLB 01?0 UGH- S TREE T. P a r a k- Chatles Bentley, South-street, Henry Cartwright , street, Walter Butler, Weymouth-street, and John Th°, pi : all described as gentlemen, were charged with having be en disorderly the overnight, and also with having obstruct,'" .; Police in the execut i on o f their duty. The Policemen h av :i o e . stated they were pos i t i ve as to the identity of the two gen men, Butler w as fi ned 31., Thomas 5/., and the two others were discharged on payment of ss. for intoxication. UNION HALL. bet- Yesterday Mr. Sp ence , a gentleman r es iding at C ain well, acc o mp an i e d b y Mr. Burbage, on e o f t h e SurrcY 11?„,87g trates, waited on M r . T ra ill , for the purpose of giving ra l mation relative to an infant which was left by its unnatn parent at the former gentleman's house. viag About nine o'clock on Sunday night Mr. Spenee, - a c hild short time previously returned home, heard the cries of proceed, as he conjectured at the time, from the fore-court atipoolif his house. I-Ic immediately went to the hall door, d m th o e n ti th p s p o er ld s , te w p r s a h p e pe d d isc u o p ve t r i e g t an infanta iinnfaanita,ragpeparently abao_u.t fo_ ll . l. had it brought into the house, and it was foduanrdkts°llabvvela yeti fine female child. There was a piece of paper pinned to i t n u a shawl which enveloped its body, and upon it was written th© legible handwriting, words to the effect that the mot her I child was a married woman, that she was in the greatest P° l 4 sible distress, not h av i ng • t h e means of procur i ng f oo d, that to avert both the death of herself and offspring she ha come to the resolution of leaving it to its fate at the door.ol gentleman whose benevolent feelings would, she was CO ViTleed, rescue both parent and child from a miserable end. Mr. Spence sent for a policeman and had the infant *.ake a to the workh ouse , w h ere i t i s now under the protection of !lti° parish autho r iti es . I n a d d i tion to the dark shawl, in whi ch the infant was found, there was also a black silk bonnet Oa its head ; but, as yet , t h ere is not the slightest clue by wh i c h to discover the party by whom it was left in the situation above described. The Magistrate (Mr. Traill) said that Mr. Spence Was Per fectly right in sen di ng t h e c hi ld to the workhouse on t h e dig' covert', and th a t t h ere was no doubt the parish officers w°`ici 1 .. exert themselv es t o appre h end the unnatural parties who _, posed it in the situation it was found. ------- MR. DOWN ING - 2 W ORK OW CHlNA.—There nr o miny circumstances which combine to render this subject highly interesting t o t h e B r i t i sh. To no part of the world, ~ 0t indeed, i s th ere a more li vely interest directed at the pre " moment than to Chi na . Th e expiration of the charter of the East India Company —the working of the new sYs teni tn in free-trade—the co mm i ss i ons of Lot(' Napier and CI the Elliot—the incre ase o f t h e smuggling transactions, wit",.„g.- recent exertions of the native Government for their suPP— aion—the late severe edict against Christianity, and the P ro e , t bable succe ss o f th e attemptso introduc e it through the a 1 6., dium of s urgeon m i ss ionaries—each of th es e points is su ed cient to draw the attention of the public to whatever Pr° 4 — , rtin to increase the stock of information. The writer of Fanqui i n Chi na " h a d peculiar opportunities for inves tigst'aro,A As a medi ca l man h e had admittance into the Hospitals, old frocluently into th e most pr i vate recesses of the natives' one .he failed not t o note d own i mmediately everything whic h c within his observation. Mr. Cla r k e , o f L e db ury, has a cow of the p e ure l a refordshire br ee d, now four years old, which at two Year'fo°,o produced two calves, at three years old one, and when years old three more , w hi ch are all living an d doing we ll. Hereford Times. -_-2_-_.---!-___-,rt---i--i---SP PATENT LEVER WITCII-ago L.g...,„ With silver double -bottom cases With silver hunting cases ich I This celeb ra t e d construction (the most accurate en .".h pvtir watch can b e ma d e ) is offered, with the l a t es t improveT - o , o tl i. e. th e d etac h ed escapement, jewelled in four holes, "loiver hand to mark th e seconds, hard enamel dial, and maintaining P to continue going while winding up, at the above price, by T. COX SAVORY'S, Working Silver and Goldsmith, 47, Cornhill, London , • (Seven doors from Gracechurch-street. ) ....2.B.—Second-hand Watches purchased in viel,"o-!-.6e _.----___ B IRT II S. On the 19th i ns t., M rs. J. D. Best, of Grosvenor-street §ire of a daughter, still-born. At Bowla n d, Midl ot hi an, N. 8., on the 18th inst., the 12"°( Wm. Stuart Walker, Esq., of a son. At Florence, on the 6th inst., the lady of J. M , Dougall , of a son. Mit R Rig D. 11. e; At Grenada, W es t I n di es, en the 14th of February last, the Lewis Hoy es , S pea k er o f the House of Assembly, to Janet, SeCi or daughter of th e l ate Angus Fraser, Esq., Sheriff-Substitute Sutherlandshire. of On the 21st inst., a t S t. M ary ' s, Islington, Mr. John „ firewood, Staffordshire,- to Emma, youngest daughter of Ja in 13racebridge, Esq., of Cloudesley-square. „lotto On the 18th i ns t., at St .. Pancr as N ew Ch urc h , Mrs. Cl ia: ng 11 Catherine A n d rew , re li ct of the late J. Andrew, Esq., of •Pe to the Rev. James Gall, of St. John's Wood-road. air es On the 19th inst., at Beetham, Westmoreland, Charles J i Hare. Esq., to Maria Laura, daughter of G. Wilson, Esq., ° f lam Tower, in th a t county. 'l ll6 On the 18th i ns t., at Presteign, Edward Sal wa y, Esq. ! e f ini, Lodge, Sh rops hi re , to Harriett, eldest daught er o f T. B. At e " - Esq., of Combs House, Herefordshire. On the 18th inst., at E gremont, Cumberland, William Jo E ' - 'sq., of Liv er po o l, t o A nna M argaret, daughter of Capta i n Ponsonby, R.N., of Springfield, near Whitehaven. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, APRIL 23. BICKHAM V. CRUTWELL. In this case, which was not concluded yesterday when we went to press, the LORD CRANCELLOR said he would dispose of the matter to-morrow morning. ----- COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCE, ArKrL, 23. LEVY V. YATES. Sir F. PoLLocx moved for a rule to show cause why the verdict given for the defendant on the second issue in the ease should not be set aside, and a verdict entered for the plaintiff on that issue, on judgment non obstante veredieto. This was an action against the celebrated performer Mr. Yates, for not performing at the Victoria Theatre. It would be necessary to state so much of the declaration as contained the contract be tween the parties, together with the plea on which the parti cular issue had been joined. The only point much urged at the trial was that which was raised on this issue, and which in substance was this, whether the performances intended to be presented to the public in pursuance of the agreement be tween these parties were such as required a license from the Lord Chamberlain, or letters patent from the Crown. That was the issue which was raised on the second plea, and on the part of the defendant it was contended, on the authority of the case of Ewing v. Osbaldiston, that an agrenment to act plays at the Victoria Theatre was illegal, that theatre being within the words of the statute, within twenty miles of London, and not being within the city of Westminster, nor where the King happened to reside. The Learned Counsel contended that this was an erroneous construction of the statute.--Rule refused. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Arl?IL 23. BURGS V. GREEN. This was an action of truvor for a horse, tried by Mr. Baron Parke at the last Norwich Assizes, when a verdict was found for the plaintiff for 13/. odd, the value of the horse. The principal question in the clause related to the identity of the animal. It appeared that being exposed for sale at Norwich, the horse was claimed by defendant as having been stolen from him two years before. The parties went to a magistrate, upon whose suggestion was agreed that th e h orse s h ou ld b e given up to the defendant, an d the plaintiff should bring an citation. IVIr. KELLY to-day moved for a rule to show cause why the verdict should not be set aside and a new trial had. The Court suspended their judgment, in order to confer with the Learned Judge who tried the cause. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Aran, 53. BRADLEY V. BOLDSVORTIT. Mr. ALEXANDER moved for a rule to show cause why a ver. diet should not be entered for the defendant in this case on the fourth count: It was an action tried before Mr. Justice Coleridge at Liverpool, in which a verdict had been found for the plaintiff, damages 4391. The ground upon which the Learned Counsel made this motion was, that there had only been a verbal contract where there ought to have been one in writing. The Court decided that the case should stand over, INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, AP1?11, 23. Mr. Archibald Campbell was opposed by Mr. CRESSWELL on the part of Mr. Henry Toulmin, an attorney, and sup ported by Mr. Cooxe. The insolvent had been in partner ship with a gentleman named Macdonald, as army agents and contractors, transacting business to an immense extent, The debts were stated in the schedule at the largo amount of 1 09,1811. In 1830 Mr. Campbell met with a serious acci dent ; he was in his carriage when a brewer's dray ran against it, and, to use his own words, he was " nearly smashed ;" his limbs were fractured, he lost one of his eyes, and he was in an unconscious state for some years. At the time of the acci dent he believed, after the payment of his debts, he bad a sur plus of about 60.000/. and when he came t o hi s senses he found he h a d been declared a bankrupt, and in 1833 he sur rendered to the Commission. He had not passed his examina tion, the reason being, he said, his incapability to render ac counts of his various transactions. He had had two partners, who were dead ; three cashiers, dead; and three of his prin. cipal ledger-keepers had also died. He had put in his schedule his debts before the bankruptcy as far as he could, but his assets he had not set forth, His affairs were in a state of inexplicable confusion. His wife had some separate pro perty. The opposition was on the ground of a vexatious defence. The matter was adjourned sine dia. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-110 USE. Yesterday the beadle of Langbourne ‘Vard appeared before the LORD MAYOR and made the following statement :—Some boys belonging to the neighbourhood of Leadenhall-market were hunting rats amongst the lockers in which the live stock is usually kept during market hours and one of them got into a locker for the purpose of stirring it about, in order to rout any of the odious vermin that might have slipped in for a re_ past. On stooping down the lad found that somebody shook him by the hand, and starting up he flung out amongst his comrades a hand sure enough, to the great dismay of all. Thinking that such an adventure was quite enough for him, he made no further search, but ran home with the hand to his master. The circumstance caused a very great emotion in the vicinity, and it was soon afterwards reported that a human head and a pair of legs were found, and before night closed in the ward authorities were informed that it was believed that a body, which exactly fitted the so l o i n ea d asc a e n r d tai l n e e e d 's : was dug up D/& D. fY la however, by On the 18th inst., Lieut.-Colonel Edmond Browne, e t s l s ie a r n u d bb is it. cs. It a w w a a r s d officer, that the fact had been the county Mayo. i• Ca' exaggerated, as the hand was the only revolting ottject On the 15th inst., at Sion Lodge, Richmond Surrey, 3 ' rs ; cap gat h m r e e o e n i tl i i t s n t that presented itself after all. tharina Eleonora Campbell, of Asknish, Argyleshire, relict o' b e lli The LORD MAYOR asked whether the hand had been ex- taut Hamilton, and eldest daughter of the late Robert Camp Esq., of Asknish. amined by a surgeon ? The beadle produced the following Rober t ' certificate, whiph he said was signed by a surgeon to whom At Langton Lodge, Yorkshire, Mary Sophia, relict of J. son, Esq., of Faveran the band was shown, in order that he might give his opinion On th M I . inst,, at e . Inst., at Paris, Captain Lewis Shep , whether it was separated from the 4011 when the unfortunate b . . * . m to-Ith year. Esq' man who owned it was alive o r d ea d ;_....." The hand is consl-. On the 19th inst. at at Northampton, aged 79, Wm. Sutton, &rattly di* , aced as regards the bones of the fore and little On the 19th inst . ., Emily, :ouneest daughter of Thom" Ware, fingers; and judging from the recent appearance of the sepa- Esq., Kingsland-road, aged one year and three months. y i 0 rated wrist-joint, has been amputated, but whether before or On the 20th inst., at St. John's Hill, Battersea, a ged 49, .L. 5 after death there it no certain evidence, though in all prohabi., Tritton, Esq. ESCPW lily before." Isaacs, the ward officer, ttid of Brea , , heard 8.1 4 . , I On the 18th inst., at. Lympstone, Devon, W. C. Callow, the difiiltV, as nobody •could M.D., of the Oth or Enniskillen Dragoons. . s mr e od-rond • think how the hand of a living n Park, Net . ' that the certificate increased Ott the 111th inst., in Hamilton-ten St. John person could have been flung into such a place, although it Esq" ~ of Mary, t w on if s e hi o r f e A a l o a e tt d hi 7 a s s . Wilks, Esq., of Easton Nesto thamp might be readily supposed th a t a young surgeon, after using o n the sth i n b q , Jane Harriet, wife of H. Schiller , ''''' the hand of a subject for the perposes of dissection, would get Beckenham, Kent'.. rid of it in such 4 manner. Having heard the reports which on the 20th inst., at Portman-place, Edgeware-road, HenrYl were spread abroad, to the great alarm of the ward, he ob- (lore Cough, Esq., aged 61. tamed the hand, w hi c h , to add to the strange horror Of the On the 20th inst., at Camberwell-green, James, , „ o f Mr.o . onl y sou facts, appeared as if it had beer, boiled, James Gibbs, of Jermyn-street, aged - 29 the Here the hand i whi c h ho been ro il e d u p in a napkin, was At Boulogne, on the 9th inst., Joseph Bent, late of Queen-sOn lre ' Westminster, Esq. Kniehtsbride-e, Leslie, On the lath inst., at Trevor. square, e , r , or e Guards eillibilPd by the ward beadle. It appeared to have been most awkwardly cut away from the wrist and very much discoloured. Mr. HotthPn remarked that there appeared to be an unusual youngest on - Illue, aged six months. _____ quantity of 'at about the hand. - ---- - ---- ; , G , .01 . N' , A gentleman w h o res id ed i n Ni e l, o l"..t ar , e had often seen London: Printed and Publielted by MURDO YOE . .. of Lieutenant Munro, of the Royal H g 1 1838, limbs amputated, and after, iiaying . undergone a variety of [IT- ll2, Strand, at The Sun Office , No. 112, Strand, in the coml./ ! of aliddlesex.—Tuesday, April 24, Fepeki i anci be Was'of opinion that the hand had not been re- .